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Girlish GurusParenting, Podcasts & Punchlines: A Cross-Cultural Memoir with Rosamaria ManciniWhat happens when you give birth in a country that isn’t your own, raise kids between cultures, and decide to write your way through the madness—with humor? You get Rosamaria Mancini’s brilliant, hilarious, and heartwarming world.
In this episode, we sit down with Rosamaria—writer, mother, and author of SOS Podcasts: A Memoir—to chat about podcasts, parenting across Italy and Germany, writing through the chaos, and why laughing at life’s curveballs is sometimes the only way to survive them.
What We Chat About:
💬 What inspired SOS Podcasts: A Memoir
🎧 How podcas...
2025-08-2140 min
Expat ExpertsFrom Wall Street to Mom Abroad: Shocks & Podcast Therapy 🎧🙏🏼Send us a message!📰🤰 What happens when a successful Wall Street Journal journalist gives up her fast-paced NYC life to move to Italy and Germany—becomes a mother abroad, and suddenly finds herself lost, isolated… and hilariously overwhelmed?Meet Rosamaria Mancini—introvert, perfectionist, hypochondriac, and now author of the witty new memoir “SOS Podcasts.” In this raw, funny, and deeply relatable expat story, she shares how life at the Vatican, German culture shocks, and motherhood abroad pushed her to the edge—and how podcasts became her lifeline in a disconnected world.💥 In this episode of Expat Expe...
2025-07-281h 03
Everyday MacaroniYour Friday Night Place for Podcasts, Pasta & Pizza with Da PopeIn this episode, we are talking to the delightful Rosamaria Mancini, PhD. She is a mom, expat, author and listener of podcasts, which we love! Interestingly, her book SOS Podcasts is only one of the fun topics we talk about as we discuss what it was like growing up in a tight knit, Italian family, moving to Italy for a job as an American journalist and ending up in Germany, of all places. Her story is moving and heartfelt, with themes we can all relate to and she tells it with humor and wit. We know you will find her...
2025-07-1649 min
Most memorable journeysRosamaria Mancini - She accompanied the Pope to the Holy LandRosamaria is the author of the book SOS Podcasts. In the book she tells her unique story of being a woman, wife, and mother living abroad. A self described “big pain,” hypochondriac, and perfectionist, she details her quirks and how they were exacerbated during her time in both Italy and Germany, and how she turned to podcasts to feel less alone and more connected. In a refreshingly original, funny, assertive, and honest voice she lays it all out – from her tendency toward hyper protective parenting and Catholic guilt to her opinions on air conditioning, military wives, German food, a...
2025-05-0632 min
Famous Interviews with Joe DiminoRosamaria Mancini on Teaching, Journalism, Writing & Her Debut Book SOS PodcastsWelcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. In this episode, we speak with Rosamaria Mancini—former journalist, author, and writer of SOS Podcasts.Rosamaria’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other top publications. She has an extensive background in communications, including several years as a communications specialist at the Vatican. Currently, she works with Fairtrade International in Bonn and teaches communications at the Brussels School of Governance and UMGC Europe.A native New Yorker, Rosamaria now resides in the tri-border area of Germany, the N...
2025-03-1523 min